Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for November 17, 2018

And I just wanted to add “you ████ can ████ with your ██ ████”

I’m reminded of my favorite piece of dialog from The Monkees episode “The Devil & Peter Tork”: Mike: So that’s what cuckoo [mouths “Hell”] is all about. Davy: Yeah; cuckoo is pretty scary. Micky: You know what’s even more scary? You can’t say cuckoo on television!

Drop the strip from the paper, don’t publish that one strip, anything but the removal of objectionable words and passages form written material. The removal of what can offend people can prevent the warning of a potential negative outcome.

“They can eat my shorts”?

People today have too thin of a skin. We get outraged over offensive actions or statements without taking in to account the original intent of the offending party. Just because a lot of folks may take offense to something the person who released it shouldn’t be crucified for having a different view.

The Houston Post reran an old Bloom County in place of the correct Sunday strip about 20 years ago because they deemed it too offensive. You could go by the newspaper office and pick up a copy of the “offensive” strip. We did and it was hilarious. It was bunch of the guys and one of them told a blonde joke. A woman walks up and reads them the riot act concluding, “You should take a long, hard look at what gives your life meaning.” (Something like that, it’s been a long time.) The last panel has all of these guys looking into their shorts. Probably a bit too accurate and funny as all get-out. Offensive? To some, I guess.

Totally agree with the subscriber.

You find it offensive and I find it funny, that must be why I’m happier than you.

Newspapers, and more particularly their editors/editorial boards, are weenies. All that revolves in their heads is, how will the advertisers react?

All else is a pretext.

What a load of (censored).